Rick Jacobo

Senior Cloud Engineer | 3x AWS Certified | PowerShell and Automation Guru | Design, Build, and Deploy Serverless Solutions to AWS.

About

Senior Cloud Engineer with over 15 years of IT experience in systems and network administration. I hold an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification and have designed, built, and deployed serverless solutions to AWS. I enjoy automating with PowerShell, learning new technologies, building tool sets with Docker, running them on Kubernetes, and sharing them with the world - learn more about my projects and writings on my GitHub page.

As an IT professional I’ve had the opportunity to work in Managed Services, School, Enterprise, and Non-Profit settings and have expertise in network and systems administration, routing and switching, virtualization, PowerShell scripting and automation, Microsoft enterprise solutions including cloud offerings such as Microsoft 365 and Teams, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce development with Skuid's low code platform.

Throughout this time I have gained valuable experience and insight to understand IT is not an end but a means to achieve the goals necessary for a business to thrive and grow.

Projects

Strēt

Strēt is a SaaS offering for food truck owners, built using serverless technologies on the AWS platform (AWS Lambda w/PowerShell, DynamoDB, API Gateway, AWS Location Service, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, S3, CloudFront, Route53), Github, HTML, and CSS.

https://stretapp.com

Automate with ASAP

ASAP helps you deploy VMware environments quickly and more efficiently. Whether you are building development environments in your home lab or full stacks in production, ASAP will help you deploy faster and better.

https://automatewithasap.com

GitHub

https://github.com/rickjacobo

DockerHub

https://hub.docker.com/u/rickjacobo

Technical Experience

includes, but not limited to, networking (HP, Cisco, f5, Fortinet, pfSense), systems administration (Windows Server/Desktop, Exchange, Ubuntu Server/Desktop, OSX), identity and access management (Active Directory and Group Policy), virtualization (VMWare, Hyper-V), Telephony (8×8 Virtual Office and Virtual Contact Center), Docker, Git, VSCode, Salesforce (Skuid UI/UX Development), Microsoft Enterprise Solutions including Office 365/Microsoft Teams, PowerShell Scripting and Automation, and Amazon Web Services.
Certifications: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate.